Falun

Falun is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 population in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, collectively with Borlänge, a metropolitan vicinity with near 100,000 inhabitants. Falun changed into originally famous for its copper mine, and is nowadays an essential service and commercial town even though the mine is closed.

The metropolis of Falun is understood to have existed in the 14th century as a marketplace region for the encircling lands. Mining for copper have been a local commercial enterprise since the mid-thirteenth century, or likely as early as 1000, and the agency for the extracting of copper and gold from Stora Kopparberget is thought to be the oldest still-present business enterprise within the world, proved lively considering 1347, while its charter become granted by using King Magnus IV of Sweden. The first percentage inside the business enterprise is dated as early as 1288. However, an enterprise at that time became nothing greater than a cooperative many of the owners, each contributing with a proportion of money for production, gear, and many others., important to run the organisation.